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Ask your OAS representative
to vote NO
on Insulza’s reelection

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Name: *
Email: (opcional)
Representative:
Your Message: * Dear Sir/Madam, I am a citizen who believes that “Democracy is indispensable for the effective exercise of fundamental freedoms and human rights,” and that “The peoples of the Americas have a right to democracy and their governments have an obligation to promote and defend it,” as enshrined in articles 1 and 7 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter. However, I have noticed with concern how the governments of Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua, despite having been elected by popular vote, have been violating the essential elements of democracy in their countries, under the silence and even complicity of José Miguel Insulza as secretary general of the OAS. These governments have been harassing and persecuting their opponents and the media, thus creating conditions for the systematic violation of the human rights of their citizens. I have also seen with great concern the campaign undertaken by Insulza to repeal the OAS 1962 resolution to suspend Cuba from the OAS, as well as his comments about the “legitimacy of the Cuban regime, emanating from Fidel Castro” and his “confession” about the “respect” and “almost admiration” he feels for him. Recently, I also saw the way Insulza activated the democracy clause in Honduras. Instead of acting as a mediator among the conflicting parties before the coup took place, Insulza sent a delegation of the OAS to support a president that was trying to rewrite the country’s constitution through unconstitutional means. Insulza thus succeeded at crippling the OAS’s credibility as an impartial international arbiter of democracy. This loss of credibility directly impaired the OAS’s ability to revert the effects of the coup, and thereby endangered the safety of millions of people in Honduras for more than six months. I understand that Insulza’s obligation is neither to remain inactive in the face of attacks on democracy in Latin America, nor to support autocratic governments. However, over the last five years, Insulza has not only proclaimed that he lacks any authority to do this, but has repeatedly ignored that democracy is being violated in many countries, choosing instead to support the governments responsible for those violations. For these reasons, I ask you to vote NO on the reelection of Insulza. Sincerely, [write your name here]

Ask your OAS representative to vote NO on Insulza’s reelection

Ask your OAS representative
to vote NO
on Insulza’s reelection